Zoe Hobbs

EVENT: Athletics: Women's 100m

New Zealand’s fastest ever female 100m sprinter made her Olympic debut in Paris. Hobbs qualified for the semi-final with an impressive time of 11.08s. In her semi she ran 11.13s to miss out on the final.

Raised in Taranaki but based in Auckland, Zoe was a gifted age-group performer and made her international senior debut at the 2019 World Championships in Doha.

Coached by James Mortimer she impressed at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games to finish fifth in the women’s 100m final.

In 2023, she made history by becoming the first woman in Oceania to run below 11-seconds for the 100m and earlier this year placed fourth in the 60m final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in an Oceania record of 7.06 – just 0.01 shy of the podium positions.